The City Council takes steps towards police reform, approving a civilian oversight board for the police department, while three mass shootings occur in the city just hours before U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland arrives. Plus analysis of the not-so-surprising announcement that Governor Pritzker is seeking reelection.

Reset goes behind the headlines of the week’s news.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Andrea Guthmann

The Chicago Department of Transportation on Thursday released its Strategic Plan for Transportation, self-billed as “the nation’s first urban transportation plan developed in the wake of the pandemic, economic and racial justice crises of 2020.”

CDOT Commissioner Gia Biagi and Janette Sadik-Khan, a former New York City transportation commissioner, join Reset to discuss the bold plan.

Producers: Steve Bynum

Host: Odette Yousef

A 34% dip in Black enrollment in Illinois colleges and universities suggests that higher education in the state is not equitable.

Reset checks in with an educator and a leader at a women’s employment nonprofit who are working together to offer solutions.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Olivia Canny

Reset checks in with WBEZ’s education desk and a suburban superintendent to discuss how Chicago-area schools plan to reopen this fall.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Nereida Moreno

Supporters of the restorative justice movement say it’s a better alternative to dealing with crime by focusing on healing instead of punishment. Last week, Gov. JB Pritzker gave the restorative justice movement a big boost, making it illegal to use statements or actions made during restorative justice sessions in court.

Reset hears about the potentials and challenges of restorative justice.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Andrea Guthmann

A 99-year old restaurant, which took patrons back to old Russia and Bohemia with it’s food and décor, is in danger of being torn down. Reset takes you inside Klas Restaurant in Cicero on the latest edition of our series “What’s That Building.”

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Jason Marck

In the summer of 1919, a Black teenager was stoned for drifting into an area of Lake Michigan tacitly reserved for whites only. He then drowned, leading to one of the worst incidents of racial violence in Chicago.

Reset brings on the co-director of a project that holds an annual bike tour to mark the anniversary of the riot and to educate the public about how the events that summer shaped the city’s history.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Stephanie Kim

As Amazon and Walmart battle for the e-commerce crown, one Chicago startup is looking to level the playing field for smaller businesses.

For our weekly series Chicago Innovators, Reset learns more about ShipBob and its growing success in the industry.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Stephanie Kim

An investigation by The Washington Post and 16 other media outlets analyzed a list of 50,000 phone numbers possibly breached in a spyware attack. Developed by a company in Israel, the spyware mostly targeted journalists, political activists and public officials, but it nonetheless raises questions about the security of everyone's devices.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Claire Hyman

Life expectancy in the U.S. fell by a year and half in 2020, the largest drop since World War II. Reset checks in with Dr. David Ansell, author of the book The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills for his thoughts.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Nereida Moreno